Robert De Niro in Once Upon a Time in America – a restored and extended print of Sergio Leone's film will premiere at Cannes. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Warner Bros

The starriest sidebar at Cannes was unveiled today, with the likes of Robert De Niro, Roman Polanski, Jerry Lewis, Alfred Hitchcock and Roberto Rossellini topping the bill. They've all got films scheduled in the Cannes Classics wing devoted to restored prints of old classics, and created in 2004 "as the relationship between contemporary cinema and its own memory was disrupted by the advent of the digital age".

Thirteen features, two shorts, a mini-concert and four documentaries – all world premieres – are on the bill, including the previously announced restored and extended print of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, which has been overseen by Martin Scorsese. Robert De Niro, Elizabeth McGovern and Jennifer Connelly, who star in the film, will attend, alongside the Leone family.

Polanksi will also be in attendance on the Croisette for the restored print of 1979's Tess, though word is still out on whether Spielberg will be on hand to unveil the new print of Jaws, which Universal are presenting as part of their centenary celebrations. The Ring (1927), one of Hitchcock's last silent films and among the BFI's targets with its Rescue the Hitchcock 9 project, will have its world premiere in Cannes, with a cine-concert by Stephen Horne.

Lawrence of Arabia, which was screened on the beach at Cannes just two years ago, will be unveiled in a new print; likewise The Ballad of Narayama, Keisuke Kinoshita's 1958 drama.

Last year's Rossellini Project consolidates on the success of last year's The Machine that Kills Bad People (1948) with a restored version of Journey to Italy (1954).

Other programme highlights include Andrei Konchalovsky presenting a new print of Runaway Train, Agnès Varda with a restoration of Cleo from 5 to 7, an evening in celebration of Georges Lautner, plus documentaries about Woody Allen, Jerry Lewis, the recently deceased Claude Miller, and Me and Me Dad, Katrine Boorman's portrait of her father, John.